Before penalties Cristiano confessed: I'm dead!
Before penalties Cristiano confessed: I'm dead!
"Churuta must win the toss - must fight first!" Sergio Ramos or Churuta, looked at the group of players scattered on the grass before his penalty. He had scored a 2-finals of the Champions League and now to top it wanted him to win the draw! He went to the place where they Gabi (Atletico captain) and referee, and returned with bad news:
"We lost the toss. But first fight penalties!" "How so?!" "They want to be second in performance. And we went down our door to our audience." Players could not believe it. In the decisive moment alone gave Atletico Madrid a ball. "Red-white" remember the game against PSV, when the Dutch began to beat penalties first and lost. A study from 2010 found that starting the first beat penalties, won 60% of cases. This may not be so important, but can weigh. And on one condition: to start first shootout goal. "I want to do something big," said Lucas Vasquez then. Some of his teammates looked at each other. When someone talks so in penalties should leave him alone.
"If he wants to beat them all," said one. In the locker room all agree: penalty of Lucas Vasquez lifted their spirits. Three reasons that led them to believe. First, childish gesture to spin the ball on your finger, as if basketball player from Harlem Globtrotars. "Some could not even walk, others - even to look. And that gadnyarche starts beating a penalty as child friendly match," said one teammate. The second reason to believe was that he filled with the same calmness. So it gives the impression that the evening would not be good for the Cloud. And only then, with his goal, he relaxed the nerves turned to the audience and showed the emblem of Real Madrid, "Lucas us bent like crazy with this gesture. The audience went mad - it was the first penalty, and now it seemed that we gained tell in club. Once selected desires David Concretes, assistant Zidane, draw up the list: first - Vazquez, second - Marcelo, the third - one lame. that represented Real Madrid in all its glory.
When the paper was read, one of the players went alarmed at Zidane: "Mister, is not it best to begin the strongest duzpadzhii? We have to be sure." The reaction of Zidane was loud laughter: "And who are the best? You'd like them to tell me? If I tell them, put them them." In penalties in 2012. Mourinho bet all his dynamite at the outset: Cristiano, Kaka and Ramos. All three missed. "There's nothing to do, no matter what you do," he said then coach. This time Real did not train penalties or thinking to get to overtime. As Zidane himself, who made three changes earlier and was forced to leave the pitch Bale on one leg.
"We are a team of sprinters and they (Atletico) - of marathon runners. When we tied it, we started pushing. They had two shifts on overtime, and we risked because of injuries to remain with 9. Injuries to Danny (Carvajal) injured Garrett is. I'm afraid that if the root or a player of the same type - a small, fast, they will kill us. As did Carrasco was so fresh, "said one of the coaches. Bale played 20 minutes, dragging one foot on the grass. He wanted to beat penalty. He said he is confident, will score his goal to his healthy thinking how to put your own. Do not consider painting that was the sight of millions madridisti when walked, limping to the ball. If players always say that you never think about what would happen if you missed penalty in the case of Bale, it was absolutely safe. Thoughts about a person. Scientists, of course. The doctor Real sprint to the coaches: Where goes after lame? It can not beat her!
Thus sounded the voice of reason among a group of enlightened that it looked like it was mad. "He said he'd scored, it was enough to beat her." "But is injured, let anyone stop him!" In this situation, when the "San Siro" was a cauldron of nerves and shouting, only one of Real keep your sanity. It was Keylor Navas. The coach of goalkeepers Lopis its projected videos of the performers Atletico since adolescence. Percentage of performances left or right, up or down, strong or not so strong. Navas, kneeling on the grass, sharing these secrets with God. But Atletico began to mark one after another. Grizman began as against PSV - in the same corner. The rest, as is typical for them, they made changes. The coaches knew: "They fight upside down!" When Huanfran focus on ball Navas think that it is too late to make changes. Huanfran followed his plan, as against PSV, the plan revealed by Lopis known to himself Navas' right to the post. " Huanfran aimed right Navas grabbed a corner, the ball hit the Dir. "If you had dropped it, Keylor saved" are convinced in the dressing room ...
Before the penalties when half the planet was watching TV one player began to pour soul. Not anyone, and with recognition, which is not expected from someone like him. Cristiano Ronaldo approached a group of teammates: I'm dead! He told them. "I do not keep your feet, do not hold me. I'm not well." They were noticed on the field. He lacked the speed, especially to help out in defense. But they did not know whether their star spoke of his confidence. When they saw the list of Concrete, many sought to look at the name of Cristiano Ronaldo, he was last. №7 he had kept the silver bullet. "But you all right or not?" "I'm not fighting. Relax!" For audiences CR retain the second part of their conversation, the eternal Ronaldo: one in whom all swear. "It's half club" cut down one of the bosses.
He had told Zidane on the pitch how dreamed that will score the decisive goal. Physics was dead. The second period began frantic sprint to stop the counter Atletico. And then his body refused. But not his head. It would at the same angle chosen by his teammates: left Cloud. "Who would beat sixth," asked Pepe to exit the pitch. "None. He was asked. It was not specified, no one knew." With goals from Cristiano Zidane fist and smiled. Hug with concrete. Square "Cibeles" person team asked him what is better - to win the Champions League as a player or as a coach. "As a coach. I do not compare," he said, laughing. The truth is that his last final with the white team, recalled Roberto Carlos in Milan, Zidane only had to detect browse the Brazilian.
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